Improvement in curry-combs



. E. HARRIS. Curry-Comb'.

No. 221,962. Patented NOV. 25,1879.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELIJAH HARRIS, OF PRINCETON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO B. F. EABCOOK, L. D. GLEAVELAND, AND J. H. REA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CURRY-COIVIBS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,962, dated November 25, 1879 application filed October 11, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIJATI HARRIS, of Princeton, Bureau county, State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Curry-Combs, of which the Ibllowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, illustrating the improvement, in which-- Figure l is a face view of the tooth side of a curry-comb embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a section thereof, taken on line 0c, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a perspective view ofthe core-plates and a broken piece of the tooth-plate removed trom the other parts; Fig. 4,21. broken strip ot' the tooth-plate; Fig- ,amodication of Fig. 1.

The nature of the present invention consists in the combination of a spiral toothed plate with a disk in such position that the'plate in crossscction shall be att right angles with the disk which supports it.

The object sought is to make the tooth-plate flexible to a certain extent, that the convolutions thereof inlay` be elongated or contracted (in drawing 'the curry-comb over an animal) to relieve the device from dust, hair, Ste., and obviate the rigidity ot' the curry-combs as hereto'ore constructed.

A, Fig. 1, represents a metal disk of suitable size to support a tooth-plate for curryin g horses. To this plate is attached a spiral toothplateO, as follows: An X-shaped core-plate, D E, is cast solid to or fastened to a plate, A, at its central part, as shown.l and one end of the plate D is provided With a slot, in which is placed the inner end of a spiral tooth-plate, O, the convolutions extending out and terminating at b, Fig. l. Holes having been previously made through the tooth-plate O, a metal rod, L, is placed through these holes in the convolutions of C, of such size asreadily to permit the convolutions to slide on it. The

ends of the rod L pass through the plate A, and are riveted down in the usual manner of fastening iron rods.

In the present construction stops c ma, Src., project out from the plate A to control the eX- pansion ot' the spring toot11-plate 5 but these stops are not required in the form shown, as Will be seen at Fig. 5, a modification of Fig. 1, Where the spring tooth-plate O is held in po sit-ion on plate A by means of two rods, J and F, and clamping-nuts H G G', instead of the one rod L, as at Fig. 1. This construction in Fig. 5 admits substantially of the same spring movement of the plate O, although it is held by different means.

I make different forms of fastenin gs for holding the plate to the disk A. but in all cases permit the convolutions of the plate O to expand and contract when in use. The disk at Fig. l is in skeleton form-that is, itis cast with openings I I, Snc.; but it maj,r be solid, some persons preferring to have the dust pass through the back of the comb.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a curry-comb, the disk A, combined with a toothed spiral plate, C, which is held to the disk A at intervals, substantially as described, Whereb57 it is enabled to expand and contract, as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination of the disk A, toothed spira-l spring O, rod L, and center core, D E, as specilied.

3. The combination of the disk A, toothed spiral plate O, rod L, and stops c, as set forth.

ELIJAH HARRIS.

Witnesses:

M. H. GUsTIN, E. E. GUsTIN. 

